Holding device for telephone-receivers.



K. H. ATHERTON & M. N. RODGERS.

HOLDING DEVIGE FOR TELEPHONE RECEIVERS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 24, 1913.

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HOLDING nEvwE FOR TELEPHONE RECEIVERS.

APPLICATION TILED MAY 24, 1913.

Patented May 12, 1914.

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KATE H. ATHERTON, OF CARSON CITY, NEVADA, AND MAE N. RODGERS, OFCHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOLDING DEVICE FOR TELEPHONE-RECEIVERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 12, 1914:.

Application filed May 24, 1913. Serial No. 769,665.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, KATE H. ATHnR'roN and Man N. Rooenns, citizens ofthe United States, and residing, respectively, at Carson City, county ofOrmsby, and State of Nevada, and the city of Chicago, county of Cook,and Stateof Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Holding Devices for Telephone-Receivers, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in holding devices for telephonereceivers and the object of the invention is to provide a simple devicewhich may be connected to any telephone stand for holding the receiverin such a manner that. when the receiver is pulled forward into aconvenient position for listening a switch lever of the telephone standwill be operated for closing the circuits in the usual way.

WVith the above object in view our invention consists in the features ofinvent-ion details of construction and combination of parts which willfirst be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and thenpointed out in the claims.

In the drawings,-Figure l is a view of a telephone set provided with ourreceiver holding attachment the parts being shown in their position whenthe instrument is in circuit and ready for use; Fig. 2 is a similar viewshowing the receiver holding attachment swung around into idle ornonoperating position the instrument in this position being out ofcircuit. Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of another modification of ourin vention.

Referring to the drawings A is a clamping device arranged to engage thestand for the purpose of supporting the attachment in the example now tobe described where the attachment is to the ordinary portable stand.This clamping device conveniently consists of a split band or open ringprovided with cars a through which passes a screw a provided with a nutwhereby the band may be clamped to the stand. This clamping device hasan arm a to which is secured an upward extending post B. Upon this postis mounted a tube C provided with an inclined or spiral slot 0. To thepost B is attached a radially arranged pin 6 which projects through theslot 0. To the tube C is attached a receiver holding arm C extending ata suitable angle to said tube C and provided at its outer end with aclamping device 1) arranged to clamp and hold the tele phone receiver.At an intermediate point on the tube C is loosely mounted a jaw device1G pressing against a collar 0 secured to the tube C above said jaw.This jaw device is provided with open jaws arranged to engage theordinary fork of the receiver holding end of the switch lever F of thetelephone set, a thumb screw 0 being provided whereby the jaw device maybe clamped to said switch lever. The slope of the slot 0 is such thatthe weight of the telephone receiver will tend to cause the tube C toslide down the post I3 and thereby rotate the tube C on said post. Inthe extreme downward position of the tube C the receiver indicated at Gis swung to one side in'the position indicated in Fig. 2 and also thejaw device E is moved downward by the downward thrust of fixed collar 6,thereby carrying the switch lever downwardly to its lowest positionagainst the action of the usual controlling spring or equivalent meanstending to maintain the lever in its upper or closed circuit position,whereby the subscribers instruments are cut out of the circuit. \Vhen itis desired to bring the instrument into operation it is only necessaryto catch the receiver and move it to a convenient position forlistening, where by the tube C is rotated and owing to the inclined slot0 and pin Z) the said tube C is simultaneously elevated, thus allowingthe outer end of the switch lever F to move upwardly and cut theinstruments into the circuit. As soon as the telephone receiver isreleased it tends to swing back to its inoperative position thus rotatinthe tube C and cutting out the subscribers instruments.

The device illustrated in Figs. 3 and t is constructed upon the samegeneral principle as that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 but is intended for usewith the ordinary wall set. In this case the clamping device instead ofhaving an open ring or band is provided with an open jaw arranged toclamp to any suitable part of the wall set and the arm C instead ofbeing attached to the top end of the tube C passes through a slot in thesame and is held. by a screw indicated at 0 Furthermore, this arm isconveniently jointed and provided with a clamping nut c where by thesaid jointed arm may be adjusted so as to hold the telephone receiver ata convenient position. The operation of this modification is similar tothat of the device shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

It will be noted that the device is simple and may be manufactured at alow price while at the same time, since it does not embody the use ofany springs, it is reliable in operation and not easily disarranged.

Having thus fully described our invention what we claim as new is asfollows:

1. The combination with a telephone set having a transmitter, receiverand switch lever of a post, means for holding said post in fixedrelation to the transmitter support, a tube mounted on said post andprovided with an inclined slot, a pin secured to the postand extendingthrough said slot, a receiver holding arm attached to the tube,extending at an angle thereto and arranged to hold the receiver, meanscarried by the tube and arranged to clamp the end of the switch leverand mechanism carried by the tube for moving said means vertically butnon-rotatably.

2. The combination with a transmitter, means for supporting the same, areceiver and a switch lever, of a clamping device arranged to be securedto the transmitter support, a vertical post carried by said clamp- KATEH. ATHERTON. WVitnesses:

J. E. MONAHAN, M. D. FAIRCHILD. In witness whereof I have hereuntoaffixed my hand this 22nd day of March 1913.

MAE N. RODGERS. Witnesses MonRnDLs M. Coon, MINNIE A. OLSEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

